期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROIMMUNOLOGY
卷 159, 期 1-2, 页码 225-229出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2004.10.012
关键词
CTLA-4 gene polymorphism; HLA-DRB1*1501; multiple sclerosis; disease susceptibility; disease prognosis; Japanese
We investigated the polymorphisms of exon 1 (+49A/G) and promoter (-318C/T and -651C/T) regions of the CTLA-4 gene in 133 Japanese patients with conventional/classical multiple sclerosis (MS) and 156 healthy controls. Patients with optico-spinal MS (OSMS) or atypical clinical attacks were excluded from the study. There was no significant difference in the distribution of polymorphisms between patients and controls. Furthermore, there were no associations between polymorphisms and clinical characteristics, such as age at onset, disease prognosis, and HLA profiles. Our results suggest that CTLA-4 gene polymorphisms are neither conclusively related to susceptibility nor to the clinical characteristics of MS, especially in Japanese patients with conventional/classical form and clinical features identical to those of their counterparts in Western countries. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据